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Further thoughts about evidence in education

Aug 31, 2014 | Category: Featured

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit. G. K. ChestertonMeaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them...

#research #epistemology #interpretivism #ontology #positivism #scientific method

Some tentative thoughts about evidence in education

Aug 29, 2014 | Category: Featured

To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.Robert A. Heinlein I've been thinking hard about the natur...

#Wittgenstein #research #Gert Biesta #Kieran Egan

I ♥ rote learning

Aug 26, 2014 | Category: learning

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.St. Basil I've been reading and enjoying Getting it Wrong from the B...

#Daniel Willingham #Joshua Foer #Kieran Egan #Poetry by Heart #rote learning

Back to School Part 5: Marking

Aug 24, 2014 | Category: assessment

This series of #backtoschool blogs summarises much of my thinking as it’s developed over the past few years and is aimed at new or recently qualified teachers. Each area has been distilled to 5 ‘top t...

#marking #back to school #Dunning-Kruger

Back to School Part 4: Planning

Aug 23, 2014 | Category: Featured

This series of #backtoschool blogs summarises much of my thinking as it’s developed over the past few years and is aimed at new or recently qualified teachers. Each area has been distilled to 5 ‘top t...

#Dylan Wiliam #Daniel Willingham #John Tomsett #Lee Donaghy #planning #back to school

What does John Hattie think about education?

Aug 22, 2014 | Category: Featured

If you don't yet know, BBC Radio 4 have lined up a series of 8 interviews with the leading lights of the education world. In the second programme of the series, Sarah Montague interviews professor Joh...

#John Hattie

Back to school Part 3: Literacy

Aug 21, 2014 | Category: literacy

This series of #backtoschool blogs summarises much of my thinking as it’s developed over the past few years and is aimed at new or recently qualified teachers. Each area has been distilled to 5 ‘top t...

#The Secret of Literacy #back to school #Isabelle Beck

Back to school Part 2: Relationships

Aug 20, 2014 | Category: Featured

This series of #backtoschool blogs summarises much of my thinking as it’s developed over the past few years and is aimed at new or recently qualified teachers. Each area has been distilled to 5 ‘top t...

#back to school #memory palace #The Benjamin Franklin Effect

Ofsted's new Inspection Handbook - a cause for celebration

Jul 30, 2014 | Category: Featured

As detailed by Old Andrew here, I attended a meeting with the new National Director for Schools Policy, Sean Harford in Birmingham on Friday 25th July. This had followed a series of telephone calls an...

#Ofsted #Old Andrew #Sean Harford #Inspection Handbook

Grit and growth: who's to blame for low achievement?

Jul 10, 2014 | Category: Featured

I’ve recently read a couple of interesting articles which question the efficacy of the research of Carol Dweck (Mindset) and Angela Duckworth (Grit). The complaint is that if we attribute an individua...

#Carol Dweck #Cristina Milos #Joe Bower #Growth mindset #Grit #Angela Duckworth #Gary Walsh

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Further thoughts about evidence in education

Some tentative thoughts about evidence in education

I ♥ rote learning

Back to School Part 5: Marking

Back to School Part 4: Planning

What does John Hattie think about education?

Back to school Part 3: Literacy

Back to school Part 2: Relationships

Ofsted's new Inspection Handbook - a cause for celebration

Grit and growth: who's to blame for low achievement?

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